Stop Calling Your Genius Sh*t

Every expert was once an amateur and every master started as a beginner. But to create a masterpiece you need to make 1000s of mediocrities. [Lionel Smit, one of the world’s best artists told me “get your first 100 paintings out of the way.” Profound.].

You can’t get there by following the crowd and seeking likes, playing with your “smart” phone and being a cyber zombie coasting through life chasing trivial things. 

No. You must live YOUR life. Break free of mental limits and societal dogma. You need to be a kid again. Curious and brave and foolish and fully alive. Willing to laugh and fail and fall flat on your face. 

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The very nature of great art terrifies. When you bring light and when you challenge people to reconnect with their greatness and their internal heroism and their gifts and their talents in whatever it is you do, you're gonna terrify most people. I remember being in the Born district of Barcelona in the Picasso Museum and there was a quote on the wall that said people were terrified by the genius of Picasso. When you challenge people to be a hero, to do their best work, to display their magic. When you challenge people to let go of their fears and enter the secret order of the virtuosos, they have a choice, embrace your message or shoot the messenger. And it's much easier to shoot you and to shoot me because we're challenging and trying to uplift them. It's much easier to shoot the messenger than to have the bravery and courage to say, I must let go of the old me and experience a death of sorts to embrace the next level of me and my luminous, heroic, highest nature. Critics are dreamers who got scared and never got back up. I want you to really think about that point. I suggest it with my usual deep love and respect. You see, someone who's doing amazing work in the world, someone who is dominating their domain, someone who is iterating their craft every day, someone who is living their heroic mission, someone who has joy in their hearts because they're producing magic, that honors their creativity as well as serves the world doesn't have time to go online and post a review that is not just negative, but that is attacking. Joyful people don't spew toxic words on other human beings. You see, as little kids, we all had dreams. As little kids, we all had intimacy with our primal nature. We knew who we were. We weren't afraid to be authentic. We weren't afraid to speak our truth. We weren't afraid to color outside of the... weren't afraid to say, I want to be an astronaut. I want to be a famous artist. I want to be a billionaire. I want a yacht. I want great love. Like little kids stood in awe and wonder because that's who we are. And then what happened is we went out in the world and our parents and our teachers and the media and our peers and previous generations.I believe all of those influence come together to cause us as we get older to lose who we truly are. And so critics are dreamers. They did dream. There was a time when they had joy in their hearts and they were healthy and they were intimate and fluent with their primitive genius. And then something happened where they contracted and shut down. And so rather than being aware of it and processing through it and releasing it, they just became bitter and they closed all up. And so now there's a certain pleasure they get seeing other people fail because misery loves company. Joyful people don't hurt other people. They lift other people up and they celebrate other people.